Definitions
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- adjective having the color of dry straw
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Examples
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In another, a woman with straw-coloured hair sits on a roadside bench with a fast-food takeaway on her lap.
Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011
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To her left lay great pale fields of stubble, lit by a gleam of watery straw-coloured sun, and above the curved brown furrows swooped and swirled great flocks of dark birds, like the congregated spirit of many souls in torment.
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She had a dark, Celtic beauty which, though striking, was yet less unusual than her daughter's, with the straw-coloured hair that my mother tossed around so wildly, like a lion's mane.
Archive 2010-02-01 Steve 2010
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The straw-coloured hat, the bright green paddy fields and the black buffalo grazing all around – a world pure and beautiful, hidden and charming.
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The one was a man of fifty years or more, thickset, barrel-chested, built like the bole of a tree, and burned by the sun and the spray and the wind to a reddish brown darker than the two braids of straw-coloured hair that framed his broad countenance, and the long moustaches that hung lower than his jaw.
His Disposition 2010
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The straw-coloured bottle brushes remaining at the branch tips mark the edges of the darkening ride like pale hanging lanterns.
Country diary: New Forest Graham Long 2010
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The straw-coloured hat, the bright green paddy fields and the black buffalo grazing all around – a world pure and beautiful, hidden and charming.
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Even in the lamplit and moonlit dark, Eugene recognised that potato face and shock of straw-coloured hair.
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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The straw-coloured hat, the bright green paddy fields and the black buffalo grazing all around – a world pure and beautiful, hidden and charming.
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She had a dark, Celtic beauty which, though striking, was yet less unusual than her daughter's, with the straw-coloured hair that my mother tossed around so wildly, like a lion's mane.
Marie Connor Leighton Steve 2010
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